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From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bind misuse
Message-ID: <3971@polari.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 91 07:14:29 GMT
References: <1991May5.010114.24826@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944
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In article <1991May5.010114.24826@neon.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
|Bind cuases problems if a document that includes a definition such as
|   /p /show load def
|then includes a graphic file that does something along the lines of
|   /test { /p exch def p show } bind def % [1]
|for a simple example.  I have found that this happens fairly often.

The graphics file that does [1] is in error.  The bind isn't what
causes the problem, it's the programmer that doesn't know how bind
works.  Should I complain that show is a bad operator because it
can't be used to calculate logarithms?

Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP